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title: No one knows where they got the money to pay for everything, nor who… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: No one knows where they got the money to pay for everything, nor who paid it, for all this happened so very long ago. Who acts: one, descendants, money, this. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 6

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No one knows where they got the money to pay for everything, nor who paid it, for all this happened so very long ago.

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**Who acts:** one, descendants, money, this · **What happens:** know, get, pay, happen · **To what, where:** money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, descendants, money, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:36:6
# text = No one knows where they got the money to pay for everything, nor who paid it, for all this happened so very long ago.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
22	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | past | descendants *= descendant* | the money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | the money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for everything | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for everything=Theme |
| 4 | **pay** | past |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
| 5 | **happen** | past | this |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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